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Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Roll Call of Bedfordshire Land Girls
Eileen Elliott

Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Roll Call > E
Name Elliott, Eileen
Date of birth 26 October 1927
Place at enrolment Withington, Lancashire
Joined WLA 7 May 1947
Left WLA 20 December 1948
WLA No. 181823
Trained Ravensden
Employed Employed by Beds. War Ag. at Clifton Hostel.
Married name Stacey
Further information Former clerk, aged 19. Transferred to Bedfordshire 17 May 1947.
Clifton land girls

(left to right) Elsie Mills, Joan Cloran, and Eileen Elliott at Clifton Hostel c. 1947

Guard of honour at wedding

Land girls guard of honour for a wedding at All Saints Church, Clifton, October 1947.
Front Row (l-r): First, Dorothy Hart, fourth along Joan Cloran, sixth along Elsie Mills, eighth along Eileen Elliott, third from right Margaret Piper
Back Row (l-r): Fourth along Ivy Whitehead, eighth along Gladys Park

 


Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author

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